Holmes read the three pieces of paper that Josiah gave him repeatedly. Josiah did not disturb him. After Holmes acquiesced, he walked to the side of the sleeping baby girl in the room.
"You're not taking her away?"
Hiri saw the bump on the baby girl's forehead, which did not seem to be a human feature.
"The nurturing plan sounds wonderful, but the truth is that I'm not ready to raise the next generation."
Josiah stretched out his finger, wanting to touch the sleeping baby, but gave up after a moment of thought.
Hiri was a human, so she could not feel the difference between the baby girl and a Chaos Demon. But the blood flowing in Josiah's body reminded Josiah that the sleeping baby in front of him was not a real Chaos Demon …
She was an existence similar to a Chaos Demon, but the magic power in her body was not gray like that of a Chaos Demon.
The color of the magic power in this young creature's body was close to blue. When Josiah looked at her, her hand moved slightly.
"Her arm seems to be engraved with … magic inscriptions?" Hiri instantly saw the complex inscriptions on the baby girl's arm. They were like tattoos on her arm.
"Which system of magic inscriptions are these?"
Josiah tried to identify the meaning of the magic inscriptions on the baby girl's arm, but with Josiah's current knowledge of magic, these inscriptions were completely messy graffiti.
"I … don't know. I can recognize the inscription system of the God of Flowing Water and Healing, and the God of Thunder, and I can also read part of the Burning Flame and Holy Light system, but the inscription system on this …" Hiri carefully searched in her memory for a moment, and could only shake her head helplessly.
This kind of academic problem was really difficult for a spellcaster like Hiri, who was a practical spellcaster.
"Looks like I'll have to ask the grey-robed man to come and identify it after a while."
Josiah did not think that a baby girl randomly abandoned on the street would have such … complicated inscriptions on her body. Her birth was not simple.
"Should we ask him?" Hiri pointed at Holmes, who was nervously watching Josiah's every move.
"There's no need for that. Dark Elf Qianmian probably knows more than her adoptive father."
Josiah took out a small bag of gold coins from his clothes and tossed it to Holmes. Holmes reached out and caught the bag of gold coins. Being at the bottom of Squirrel Street all year round, it was far from enough for him to have the ability to gather information.
Holmes seemed to be a good thief.
"There are 12 gold coins inside. Use this money to heal your injuries. Also … you don't want the child to be malnourished, right?" Josiah pointed at the baby girl who was sleeping soundly in the swaddling clothes.
Holmes held the money bag in one hand and the three pieces of paper in the other. He was about to thank Josiah, but he was interrupted by a gesture from Josiah.
"I look forward to your performance tomorrow."
With that, Josiah pushed open the door and left the tavern with Hiri.
When Josiah arrived outside Squirrel Street, it was already late at night. A crow landed on the roof of the tavern and looked at Josiah with its head tilted.
"Qianmian … Who did you ask her to spy on?"
Xiri noticed the crow on the roof of the tavern at the first moment.
Owls were the majority of the birds in the Noland. It was almost impossible to see a wild crow. As such, any crow seen in any corner of the Noland was definitely the incarnation of a Dark Elf.
Josiah made a shushing gesture at Hiri and pulled Hiri to a shop opposite the tavern.
The shop belonged to the Black Pigeons. Their leader, the Dark Elf, had already informed them beforehand. Josiah and Hiri arrived at the second floor of the shop without any obstructions. From here, Josiah could clearly see the tavern and the scenery in the alley opposite it.
Josiah and Hiri did not have to wait long before a Gnome appeared in the alley next to the tavern.
"That's the Gnome that I beat up and ran away." Hiri recognized the sneaky Gnome, but this time, Josiah's target was not the Gnome. Behind the Gnome was a figure shrouded in a white robe.
Under the robe was a helmet that looked like a knight's helmet, directly covering his appearance.
"He's the employer of the Gnome … The Gnome said that the target is here."
In the alley, the Gnome was gesticulating and saying something to the figure. Josiah relayed the information to Hiri.
"Dark Elf Qianmian told you?" Hiri glanced at the crow standing on the roof of the tavern. It was using its claws to repeatedly tap in the air.
Although Hiri was unwilling to admit it, the crow was using its claws to type. Sometimes, it even used its beak.
It seemed that in order to be a qualified spy, the Dark Elf had trained hard on how to send messages in the form of a crow.
"Yes." Josiah nodded and continued to observe the movements on the other side of the tavern.
But just as Josiah and Hiri were talking, the other party seemed to have sensed something and immediately raised his head to look at the second floor of the shop across the street.
Josiah's gaze met with the figure shrouded in a white robe. A strange feeling rose in Josiah's heart.
It was the same feeling as the 'Substitute Messengers will attract each other'. Josiah was sure that this fellow must have a certain relationship with the Chaos Demons, but it also felt like a human.
And the moment the other party noticed Josiah, he almost instantly made the decision to escape.
"Qianmian, stop him!"
Josiah ordered in the text message. The crow standing on the roof instantly changed back to its Dark Elf form.
A longbow appeared in the Dark Elf's hand, and three arrows were released in a short span of a second, hitting the ground under the other party's feet!
The Dark Elf stopped in his tracks. Just as the Dark Elf was about to shout something like "Stop and don't move", a torrent of Mana swept through the entire alley.
The Dark Elf's line of sight was blocked, but she still managed to catch up with the figure who escaped into the depths of the alley.
Josiah watched as the Dark Elf and the target disappeared from his sight. He immediately opened the window and jumped down from the building, ready to give chase.
"Judging from the Mana released by that fellow, he's not an ordinary spellcaster." Hiri hugged her staff and followed closely behind Josiah.
And just as Josiah ran into the alley of the tavern, he saw the Dark Elf standing alone at the end of the alley … At this time, the ground at the end of the alley had been completely destroyed.
The ground was like a piece of cake that was cut open by a heated knife, leaving only a huge hole. The edge of the hole was frighteningly neat.
"I'm sorry … Your Highness Josiah." The Dark Elf leaned against the edge of the wall, her calf stained with scarlet blood.
"Did he escape?"
Josiah slowly walked to the end of the alley and glanced at the ground that had been cut open. This place was connected to the sewers of Noland.
The sewers were connected to the mines dug by the Dwarves. That fellow ran into the underground of Noland. Even if they sent people to track him now, they would not be able to find him.
"How are your injuries?" Josiah came to the Dark Elf's side. The injury on her leg seemed to have been torn by something.
"This kind of injury can be easily healed by the power of the Nephilic Judge."
Although the Dark Elf regarded the executioners of the Court of Heresy as her lifelong enemy, the power she used was the same as the Nephilic Judge, and that was … Grey Mist.
In normal life, the Dark Elf hid it very well. Even the Blackwood Elves did not discover the truth of the Mana in the Dark Elf's body.
"Your Highness Josiah, that fellow … can break the Mana in my body," the Dark Elf said while using the Grey Mist to heal her body, surprising Josiah.
"Get rid of the Grey Mist?" Josiah was slightly stunned. During this time, the Dark Elf directly handed Josiah a backpack. There were a few arrows stuck on the strap of the backpack.
"This is what he 'left behind' … Also, I saw some strange inscriptions on his hand," the Dark Elf said.
"…"
Josiah did not give the Dark Elf another answer, because Josiah's attention was already attracted by the thing in the backpack.
It was a stone slab the size of a palm.
When Josiah touched this' stone slab ', the inscriptions on the surface of the slab suddenly emitted a light blue light.
"Magic Machine?" Hiri came over and stared at the back of the stone slab that was engraved with complex inscriptions, but the front reflected a strange image.
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